Re: Next Triage day - Targets ?

From: Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:53:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Next Triage day - Targets ?
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Hello everyone, So I can assume there is no interest and we can blow it off ? Regards Helgi On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > So I've changed the google calendar so that we have a two day triage > every 3 weeks as a new experiment to see how things will go. > Now what I want to do is try something different, as we talked about > in previous emails, we need a direction, a target and the target I've > chosen is SOAP. > > Now people might ask, why SOAP - Well it's the second highest bug > package we have, it´s easy to work on and easy to write tests for and > well Jan S is still around to assist :) > Hopefully he'll want to show up for one of the bug days to be with in > reach to help people. > I've been spending some of my time on SOAP lately and on previous bug > triages, what I've done so far is to convert the old "tests" into > proper phpt and also Jan and I have been writing tests for bugs we've > solved and also tests for bugs yet to be solved. > > We have two focuses now 1) write tests for bugs 2) write general tests > (see parser.phpt for example) 3) fix code and well if someone is > really bored, write docs and examples :) > > Do note this is a PHP 4 package and is mainly meant to work on PHP 4 > so no funny business, we have the SOAP ext for PHP 5 :-P > Also if you write tests do look at some of the old ones, we had to do > some fun fun fun regex and expectf to deal with different var_dump > outputs between php 4 and 5 ;-) > > Anyway let me know guys if this is feasible, since I'm sure people > don't want to tackle the excel writer just yet! :-) (hard to write > tests for and multiple apps we need to test on *sigh*) > > P.S. > A second idea for those that don't want to tackle SOAP, look at all > report with lower bug idea than 10.000 - those are our OLLLLD ones, > everything above 10.000 is since Feb 2007 and we only have below 140 > pieces of those old buggers :-) > > Regards > Helgi >

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